The White House "kill list"--a regularly updated chart showing the world's most wanted terrorists used by President Barack Obama during kill or capture debates--may soon be getting a rule book to go with it.

According to the New York Times, the administration--faced with the possibility that President Obama might lose the 2012 election to Mitt Romney--"accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones, so that a new president would inherit clear standards and procedures."

Until now, President Obama has had the "final moral calculation" overseeing the "kill list," the existence of which was first revealed in May in the wake of a drone strike that killed an al-Qaida leader.

But according to the paper, administration officials are looking to curb the power of the commander in chief with the rule book:

"There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. With a continuing debate about the proper limits of drone strikes, Mr. Obama did not want to leave an "amorphous" program to his successor, the official said. The effort, which would have been rushed to completion by January had Mr. Romney won, will now be finished at a more leisurely pace, the official said.

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Earlier this year, critics of the "kill list" launched a petition on the White House website to create a "Do Not Kill" list to protect U.S. citizens from drone strikes by their own government. The petition, though, failed to meet the 25,000-signature threshold required to get an official response from the White House.

Under Obama it is quickly becoming safer to not live within the US. At least if you are outside the US, there is a chance that the local government might try to protect you or at least raise a stink after the fact.

I'd rather have the "kill" decision made by the President than by some bureaucratic underling. The problem is not with the kill list but with the President we have. We can't trust him to use his power wisely.

This is what comes to my mind when I think of this administration hidden away safely in the White House Situation Room with a drone circling some remote village and a ‘kill list’ drawn up by valerie jarrett,

With this type of authority unchecked and growing, its just scary,

“He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. “
Psalm 10:8-9 KJV

"There was concern that the levers might no longer be in our hands," said one official, speaking on condition of anonymity. With a continuing debate about the proper limits of drone strikes, Mr. Obama did not want to leave an "amorphous" program to his successor, the official said.

Oh, so it's ok when you do it that way, just not for anyone else? F'ng hypocrites. You are everything you accuse the other side of being. Everything. As discussed in another thread, my bug-out-bag isn't for natural disasters, it is for when my own government comes after me just for loving freedom and liberty.

what a load of crap. The drone program started before Obama and Obama simply continued it. If Romney had become President he wouldn’t have needed Barack’s rules on how to “carry out kills while President is on golf course”

In the near future, micro-UAVs will experience the most growth in the defense industry, as their surveillance capabilities will be highly sought after in a world of asymmetric warfare.

Furthermore, micro-UAVs will develop the capability to execute lethal force on the battlefield, as infantry and special operations forces develop an acceptance of unmanned technologies. This shift will initially be imperfectly implemented though, as a learning curve exists at the senior leadership level of the military and the Department of Defense.

Consider Figure 2 from a recently declassified Air Force Report, which details the MAV capabilities that are desired in the future: (see figure page 7)

ii. Strike Capability

Another capability that we examined in depth was the ability of a MAV to execute lethal force. We began with the hypothesis that in the near future increased payload capacities would allow MAVs to deploy some specially adapted weapons system. Our most recent research illustrates that although there is a desire to weaponize MAVs, payload capacity is not increasing fast enough to make this a reality. Thus, AeroVironment led an effort to develop a small unmanned aerial system referred to as the Switchblade (pictured below), which is small enough to be carried in a backpack, can be launched into the air through a tube, can stream real-time video, and carries a small warhead that explodes on impact. Thus, the system is designed to be a small, unmanned Kamikaze capable of eliminating small groups of individuals and light vehicles. AeroVironment received $4.9 million for this project in 2011 from DARPA, $5.1 million from the U.S. Army on March 20, 2012, and the company predicts that the device will be carried by American soldiers in 1-2 years [10].

This prediction, with regards to UAVs, is in line with the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap released by the Department of Defense, which predicts that the Predator and Global Hawk platforms (the major full size UAV systems used today) will be in service until 2030. (see future UAV roadmap page 10)

But bear in mind that the Dept of Homeland Security has an
operating position paper that terrorists in America come from Ex military and right wing extremists ( fascist code word for conservatives), so called.

But then a TANGO is a TANGO...who cares?

The president will push the drone button whenever he wishes.
And if it happens that the target is an American Citizen, who is successfully rallying the masses to revolt against Obama, then who is to say that person is not a Tango? Is he not a TANGO?

Barak , a fascist animal, after all, is simply doing what fascists do.And he already has a data base of the GPS coordinates of every one counted in the last census in a discretely accessable data base at the White Hut. Just punch those numbers into theat slick, Obama, missile carrying drone.FASCIST FAIT ACCOMPLIS!!!

Obama is making sure that the next leftist president has the SAME power.The fact is that the treasonous lot of them should be tried, convicted , jailed and forgotten.

-Bible Believen’active Churchmember
-Old
-White
-Guy
-Conservative worldview to the Right of the GOP
-On FR since 1998
-Former FFL License holder
-Formerly active practical shooter (IPSC)
-Drives in the Right lane except to pass
-Walks down the Right side of a store aisle
-Holds doors open for others
-Have back-ups to my back-ups
-Independent do-it-my-selfer
-wife gets nervous when she hears a helicopter fly over

Yep, my guess is I’m a “terrorist” and on acronym lists everywhere. I’m OK with that.

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posted on 11/27/2012 6:53:35 AM PST
by haffast
(Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)

A good, looong read. Need to reread again carefully. I’m struck by many of the older articles in which the authors saw clearly then what Dear Leader and his followers are, and the blindness of the people. The people are cast under a spell and desirith a king.

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posted on 11/27/2012 7:04:21 AM PST
by haffast
(Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)

-Old -White -Guy -Conservative worldview to the Right of the GOP -On FR since 1998 ...since '03 -Drives in the Right lane except to pass -Walks down the Right side of a store aisle -Holds doors open for others -Have back-ups to my back-ups -Independent do-it-my-selferstill trying to do better..

Glad to be ON the list...

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posted on 11/27/2012 7:10:41 AM PST
by skinkinthegrass
(Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)

(Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)

Like your tag.

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke

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posted on 11/27/2012 7:16:45 AM PST
by haffast
(Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)

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